If you like to take a late night dip in the pool after a long day at the
parks, your time may be running short.According to a recent rumor, Walt Disney World may be making a move to
fence in all resort swimming pools and restrict access during overnight
hours.Even with their room key or Magic
Band, they will be unable to enter the pool area.Previously, guests were allowed to swim at
any hour that they wanted.There were
obviously no lifeguards on duty overnight, so it was a “swim at your own risk”
situation, but it was allowed.

It’s not necessarily a surprising move to me.Most hotels have hours where the pool is
closed.Even with a posted sign warning
of no lifeguards, I would imagine that there is still a certain liability that
the company would have if someone were swimming at night and drowned.Of course, unless the fence around the pool
is 15 feet tall, this technically won’t prevent some people from hopping the
fence and swimming anyway.But perhaps
by placing signs with pool hours and fences to make it more difficult, the company
is limiting that potential liability.

Minnie Mouse has a new meet & greet at Disney's Hollywood Studios,
inside The Magic of Disney Animation. Guests visit Miss Mouse in her dressing
room, where she's preparing for her latest and greatest big production. While
they wait, families can enlighten themselves on Minnie's past work (all
fictional, but fun) with clever posters filled with nods to Disney history.
This meet & greet continues the trend of elaborate indoor characters
greetings for A-list characters, following the recent openings of Pete's Silly
Sideshow last autumn and Princess Fairytale Hall just last week, among others.

Minnie's new place comes as a surprise, or at least to me it does. I don't
recall Disney ever mentioning it, nor do I even see any official recognition of
its existence yet by Disney themselves, which is curious considering the
company's vast online presence. I love, though, the entire premise behind this
character greeting. It is so distinctly vintage Hollywood Studios, something we
haven't seen in a while: not a celebration of the newest movie, but a visit to
the movie business itself (even if it's a fake one in which a mouse is prepping
for films that don't really exist). I understand the park's progression over
the years and the different perspective it has today from when it opened in
1989, but that doesn't mean small glimpses of the past aren't welcome. This
one's a winner!